SMC/TMC, Airborne Laser Program, 3300 Target Road, Bldg 760, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-6612

A -- AIRBORNE LASER (ABL) ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES (A&AS) DUE 011598 POC Mr Mel Pearson, Contracting Officer (505)853-3270, Mr Tim Nikolai, Technical Representative (505) 846-7657 E-MAIL: Microsoft Exchange Mail, Contracting: Pearsonm@PLK.AF.MIL, Technical: Nikolait@PLK.AF.MIL. See Numbered Note 25. The due date for SOCs is 15 Jan 98. Contact the undersigned if you cannot meet this due date. The Airborne Laser (ABL) is a high energy laser system integrated on a Boeing 747 aircraft that is being designed, fabricated, and tested for destroying theater ballistic missiles in the boost phase. It is a high priority Acquisition Category 1D Air Force program. The ABL System Program Office (SPO) requires approximately 13 man-year equivalent heads of Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) support. The A&AS contractor will support, provide expertise, and participate in the Beam Control/Fire Control (BC/FC), Aircraft, Laser, Ground Support (GS), Battle Management Command, Control, and Communication Computers and Intelligence (BMC4I), Test, Hardware (HW) and Air Vehicle Integration and Check-Out (AVICO) Integrated Product Teams (IPTs). The A&AS contractor will support the development of the ABL Weapon System through engineering analyses, segment modeling and simulation, and review and evaluation of segment concepts, architectures, and designs. The A&AS contractor will also provide specific segment modeling and simulation support to include wave optics and scaling laws, BMC4I predictive avoidance analysis, and Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) design analysis. The A&AS contractor will provide specific segment design engineering analysis for atmospheric characterization (turbulence statistics and cloud analysis), laser beam quality, adaptive optics, large optic designs, vibration, aero-optics, the pressure recovery subsystem, and acquisition, tracking and pointing. The A&AS contractor will provide specific system modeling and simulation. The A&AS contractor must have extensive, in-depth and current experience with HEL weapon system technologies, systems, and applications, as well as hands-on experience in analysis/experiments and testing with the HEL technologies. Expertise is required in laser physics, physics, gas dynamics, optical engineering, electro-optics, and structural engineering (thermal/mechanical). Extensive experience is required in COIL for the ABL weapon and solid state lasers for the ABL illuminator, including integrated laser/optical resonator analysis, pressure recovery systems, laser chemistry, and optical non-linear phenomena. Experience is also required in high energy laser weapon system beam control, vibration isolation/control, integrated laser controls, laser tracking and pointing, and laser beam aimpoint maintenance, as well as atmospheric turbulence analysis, wave optics codes, high energy laser propagation, atmospheric compensation, and adaptive optics. Additionally, experience in missile tracking/signatures, high energy laser effects, passive/active missile tracking algorithms, and damage assessment for HEL effects is required, as well as systems-level modeling and simulation, to include airborne HEL weapon systems and subsystems, aircraft platforms, atmospheric propagation, ballistic missile threats, and mission and campaign-level engagement performance analysis. In addition, the successful A&AS contractor must have, or be able to obtain, access to proprietary computer models owned by the Schafer Corporation, RDA Logicon, and SAIC. (0364)

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